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CUFF FASTENER. No. 375,672. Patented Dec. 27, 1887.

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GEORGE N. DUTTON, OF PENACOOK, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

CUFF-FASTENER.

fiPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,672, dated December 27, 1887.

Application filed April 13,1887.

'1'0 aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE N. DUTTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pena cook, in the county of Merrimac and State of wearer or user to fasten their cuff to their dress or coat sleeve upon the inside in such manner as to allow the cuff a due amount of elasticity or adjustment relative to the sleeve without tearing said sleeve or cuff or straining said fastening; and it consists in the various mechanism combined and arranged substantially as described in the following specification, and pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

Figure 1 representsaconvenient form of my improved fastening in front elevation; Fig. 2, an edge or side view of the same. Fig. 3 shows an elevation ofa modified form of construction. Fig. 4. shows a form for the part engaging with a cuff capable of hooking into the bnttonhole or engaging with a cuff-button.

The cuff-hook or part A,whicl1 engages with the cuff, may be formed of fine stiff wire or other suitable material, as seen in Figs. 1, 2, and attached to one end of an elastic web, 13, at a, to be hereinafter fully described, the triangular space a being designed to receive a cuff-button which is placed in one of the button-holes of a cuff, the shank of said button passing down and expanding the parts a a", which are normally in contact and resting within the eye a. The continuation aof the wires is then bent slightly outward, as seen best in Fig. 2, to serve the purpose of a handlepiece to disengage the eye a from its stud or cuff button. This same part may also be formed as in Figs. 3, 4, the latter of which is bent clear over in the form of a hook, aiwhich is slipped into one of the button-holes of a cuff. Thus the part A may serve two purspring the Serial No. 234,648. (No model.)

poses-i. a, engaging either a stud or cuffbutton, or the button-hole of a cuff. That end k of the elastic band B opposite the end fastened to the part A, after passing loosely through a suitable metallic loop or stop, G, is fastened firmly to a similar loop or cross-bar, C. These are both connected by a bar or bars, D, running at right angles therewith and carrying a suitable pin, E. This pin may be placed parallel either with the bars D or the said parts G G, as shown, and said parts 0, G, D, and E may be formed of one continuous wire; or the said parts may be soldered or otherwise firmly secured together, as may be advisable, the essential feature being to attach the cuff-hook or part A to an elastic band carried upon a suitable sleeve-pin, said band to be limited in its contraction, but unlimited (so far as its yielding quality may be practical) in its expansion.

In order that there may be less tendency to pin IE, it is probably preferable to have the band B and the bar D, carrying the parts 0 0, run parallel with the said pin, rather than to place the pin transversely thereto.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cuff-holder, the combination, with the sleevepin, of metallic loops formed in-- tegral with or attached transversely, one at each end thereof, and a brace or strengtheningbar connecting said loops, all as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of a pin provided at each end with a loop placed at right angles and transversely therewith, an elastic band, and a suitable device for attaching to a cuff, all arranged and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE N. DUTTON.

Witnesses:

J. B. THURSTON, NATHANIEL E. MARTIN. 

